Why ragging turns so violent among Indian students?

[surinder]

   I  have had the fortune of studying overseas and I didn't see any ragging in the college  where I studied. I hear about sporadic reports of Indian students indulging in ragging to the  extent of violence in extreme. What is wrong with them. ? None of those incidents are pardonable which indicate low level taste and criminal tendencies among the youth.  Is it because Education in government schools  free that nobody values it anymore?   

[Admin]

I am not sure where you studied but ragging is found all over the world and in the USA it is called "Hazing".Ragging has a long history, and has been the topic for  literature (e.g., in Britain, Tom Brown's Schooldays, or Boy by Roald Dahl, and in India, Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone).The main characters in  C.S. Lewis's "The Silver Chair" attend a school in which ...........the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the other children"

The Supreme Court of India defined it in a 2001 judgement[3] as a disorderly conduct. If students indulge in such rowdyism
they deserve nothing but dismissal.